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Old 11-26-2008, 11:46 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by guudasitgets View Post
The advantage to injection is that IT is run and adjusted by a computer. A carb is run and ajdusted totaly dependant on manifold vacuum, which is why they are less efficiant.
and yet, there are still older carb'd cars that get better gas mileage than FI cars do w/ the same engines.

Weird.

I totally prefer injection and an ECU... but in some cases, I'd rather have carbs.. it's just ideal to have a carb on a lawnmower instead of 300lbs of FI apparatus, ya know?
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